The sankirtan of Mahaprabhu is the rasa-lila in distribution mode.
Give your full attention in service to the lotus feet of Guru and Gauranga and what do you find as a consequence? – That subconsciously, deep within the deep heart’s core the radha-rasa-suddha-nidhi begins to flow and express itself, and you wake up springing out of the soil of Vrindavan.
If it wasn’t for him [Srila Swami Maharaj], we would know nothing about nothing, which is, kind of, our default position before we started. – Or we’d know a lot about nothing
As Srila Prabhupad Swami Maharaj would say, “A festival of fruits and flowers alone does not constitute worship of the Guru, but self-giving, self-offering.”
Mahaprabhu comes to experience Radha-bhav. But almost out of necessity of the pastimes, that can’t be from the beginning. It’s so overwhelming and devastating, He would be dysfunctional as a yuga-avatar. And it’s very delightful that He begins life, apparently, not as a devotee which is, kind of, an inside joke – because He’s Krishna.
Krishna-lila is crème de la crème of nectarine substances and it’s utterly inaccessible, reserved for the highest section of liberated souls – no hope of entering there. What is Chaitanya-lila? – Taking that exclusive nectarine substance and distributing it – magnanimously, liberally, in all directions – to the unqualified. – That’s Chaitanya-lila. You try to go direct to Krishna-lila – it’s not going to happen. Ever.
Чем отличаются материалисты от трансценденталистов? — Материалисты — то, что у них не получается — они на это забивают, а трансценденталисты продолжают. Итак, надо наступать на грабли до тех пор, пока они не сломаются.
Человек понимает, что бесконечные попытки к совершенству нужно делать. Другое дело, что каждая попытка — это не тупая попытка атаковать бесконечность, а надо делать выводы. Для того, кто не живёт духовной жизнью — ему Гуру и не нужен или нужен портрет Гуру, формальность. А вот для того, кто живёт духовной жизнью, ему нужно очень много общаться с духовными людьми...
That we should put on a banner: “Krishna consciousness – we will ruin your life!” Your mundane life will become ruined. You won’t be able to take it seriously again — even if you try. Krishna consciousness will keep eating at you: the remembrance of that. Even if you only have a brush with it. — It’s so potent.
Nabadwip is for the non-liberated: they’ll get everything there.